1. The GM can never publicly say it's a talent issue, that wouldn't go down too well with his guys no? It's like your boss saying at the company meeting that his team sucks

2. I don't think there's ANY question that this team is a lot better than 4-18. If anybody though that's how good we are, they should have said it before the season. Most nba analysts had us as 33 or wins, and the fans were even more optimistic. So, unless everybody was wrong, it is not a talent issue, at least compared to the record.

3. landry fields - come on, everybody knows we signed him because of the whole nash thing. Now, what's the GM supposed to say, "well, we don't really want fields and we certainly think he's overpriced. We were just hoping the knicks would match because they don't care about money. We gambled and we lost and now we're stuck with an overpriced player that we didn't really want"? Of course he'll say fields is great and we always wanted him ...